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questioned 26 year old tamerlan tsarnaev two years ago and it may have been on with more than one occasion. what are we learning on that front. >> it is interesting that the f.b.i. didn't identify the foreign government that warned the u.s. about him. it little doubt it russia. russia critized the u.s. for ignoring the chechen threat. >> i met with the foreign minister and police officials. we were discussing security things. everyone of them told me. go back and tell president bush take these people seriously. thape are very dangerous. >> it may not be coincidental that president putin offered condollences over the boston attack. given the extensive postingings of jihad i felt videos it is peculliar that the f.b.i. did not follow up. >> how sustained was this process bypass the f.b.i. to cover him. did they do that . technical coverage and run sources at him. how long did this go on? i serve agency for a couple of decades. if the ssb russian internal security told us someone involve would with the chechens they would in my mind need a period. the mother told it more. >> they used to come
questioned 26 year old tamerlan tsarnaev two years ago and it may have been on with more than one occasion. what are we learning on that front. >> it is interesting that the f.b.i. didn't identify the foreign government that warned the u.s. about him. it little doubt it russia. russia critized the u.s. for ignoring the chechen threat. >> i met with the foreign minister and police officials. we were discussing security things. everyone of them told me. go back and tell president bush...
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the fbi interviewed tamerlan and his family members, but we don't know which family members. what we know is they didn't find anything suspicious. no proof of terrorist activity so they cleared him and losed the case. and closed the case. they told the foreign government who was inquiring that if they were ever worried about tamerlan again they should bring it to the fbi's attention again and they would follow-up once more. that government never followed up again and that was two years ago. early last year we know that tamerlan traveled with a kir swrik stan passport to see his father in russia and pes physically chechnya. of a -- after a few months he returned to set up a youtube account and he used it to post and promote radical jihad clips. we heard from the dad he was visiting. he said he thinks his sons are being set up. we don't know how he plays into this. we don't know the motive behind monday's marathon bombing in boston was to promote chechen causes. authorities at this point say the motive is wide open. >> peter, thanks. >>> police in massachusetts are waiting to i
the fbi interviewed tamerlan and his family members, but we don't know which family members. what we know is they didn't find anything suspicious. no proof of terrorist activity so they cleared him and losed the case. and closed the case. they told the foreign government who was inquiring that if they were ever worried about tamerlan again they should bring it to the fbi's attention again and they would follow-up once more. that government never followed up again and that was two years ago....
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at the shooting in watertown where tamerlan was killed, other explosives were found. a boston police commissioner says that's one reason he thinks the brothers planned other attacks. >> we got to step over some unexploded devices that they threw at the officers and i can only understand from that that they had other targets. they were going other places. >> that's nbc news' pete williams reporting. >>> well, today members of the house will get a top secret briefing on the boston bombings. meanwhile, the head of the senate intelligence committee is demanding the fbi explain why more wasn't done to investigate a tip that one of the suspects had possible extremist ties. nbc news' lieu russest -- lou russert is live with get good morning. >> reporter: thai, good morning, yes, senator dianne feinstein fired off a strongly worded note saying she is interested into why this individual, the 26-year-old older brother was permitted to take that trip to russia, come back into the country and not have further scrutiny. there is obviously a red flag that went up. some officials in
at the shooting in watertown where tamerlan was killed, other explosives were found. a boston police commissioner says that's one reason he thinks the brothers planned other attacks. >> we got to step over some unexploded devices that they threw at the officers and i can only understand from that that they had other targets. they were going other places. >> that's nbc news' pete williams reporting. >>> well, today members of the house will get a top secret briefing on the...
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the suspects were identified add the two brothers tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev. arthel neville, fox news. >>> chief, thank you for being with us this weekend. you must be exhausted. >> i am pretty tired, judge. >> let me where that ended. sean collier is caught on the campus at 10:20. when do the gun shots and explosions in watertown start? >> they start approximately 12:25 a.m. >> what is the first thing you hear about? how do you know there are gun shots? >> i like to tell the officer's story. they were on the street and we knew there was the execution of the mit police officer. we knew there was a car jacking and as a result of that vehicle we had gps updates from cambridge telling us where the vehicle was. it was heading ward watertown and that it was actually in watertown. that's when we began to go into watertown to find the vehicle in the east. >> were your officers alone at that time? were you assisted by the fbi and atf state police were joined by the hunt? >> all of the ages agencies wer given the same update we were in boston and cambridge it was our o
the suspects were identified add the two brothers tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev. arthel neville, fox news. >>> chief, thank you for being with us this weekend. you must be exhausted. >> i am pretty tired, judge. >> let me where that ended. sean collier is caught on the campus at 10:20. when do the gun shots and explosions in watertown start? >> they start approximately 12:25 a.m. >> what is the first thing you hear about? how do you know there are gun shots?...
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it appears to show some bodies on the ground maybe tamerlan and cops. dzhokhar speeding toward him in the car. that's when police say he ran over and killed his brother. also boston police today described the next day on monday, when dzhokhar was captured on the boat. >> as soon as we had gotten there, we detected movement in the boat we could see a hand up poking at the top. whether they were trying to, you know, poke a hole in the top or if they had a handgun, we weren't sure. >> those photos just absolutely searing. shep? >> shepard: they really are. eric, more funerals today. >> yeah. funeral for a little boy fits the cold, gray day and somber mood of boston. the little 8-year-old martin richard was laid to rest today. 500 people attended his funeral mass. many of the children were crying. you know he was killed when he he was cheering on his dad at the race. his parents thanked the nation for their outpouring of love and support they said. also laid to rest today, 26-year-old mit campus police officer sean collier, tomorrow vice president joe biden
it appears to show some bodies on the ground maybe tamerlan and cops. dzhokhar speeding toward him in the car. that's when police say he ran over and killed his brother. also boston police today described the next day on monday, when dzhokhar was captured on the boat. >> as soon as we had gotten there, we detected movement in the boat we could see a hand up poking at the top. whether they were trying to, you know, poke a hole in the top or if they had a handgun, we weren't sure. >>...
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tamerlan and dzhokhar both carried illegal guns. neither had proper permits nor petitions and dzhokhar tsarnaev was under age. within the last hour the white house explained why the surviving suspect will go through the criminal system. >> he will not be treated as an enemy combatant. we will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice under u.s. law. the united states citizens cannot be tried in military commissions and it is important to remember that since 9/11, we have used the federal court system to convict and incarcerate hundreds of terrorists. >> nbc news justice correspondent pete williams is live with us right now. i know you've been reviewing these charges. what's the latest on what you've uncovered? >> it is a fairly interesting sequence of things that the government cites here as evidence. first of all they say that there was a surveillance tape that shows what apparently is the second suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev, the man in the hospital, placing the bomb at the second bombing. this is unrelated pict
tamerlan and dzhokhar both carried illegal guns. neither had proper permits nor petitions and dzhokhar tsarnaev was under age. within the last hour the white house explained why the surviving suspect will go through the criminal system. >> he will not be treated as an enemy combatant. we will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice under u.s. law. the united states citizens cannot be tried in military commissions and it is important to remember that since 9/11, we...
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>> now, devin, we know that the medical examiner has cleared tamerlan's body for recovery by the family. do we know who's going to claim it and where he's going to be buried? >> reporter: the father said an uncle of the brothers who lives in the united states could possibly be claimed today. no word on where it might be buried. in an interview with abc news in russia, the mother say she and her husband plan to come to the united states. no date has been set. one interesting complication possibly for her, there's an outstanding warrant for her arrest in the united states. she is accused of stealing $1,600 in clothing from a massachusetts department store. diana and january john? >> devin dwyer in washington. thank you. >>> for the first time, we're hearing from david henneberry where dzhokhar was found. he considers himself an accidental hero. ed harding has the exclusive interview. >> i know what people say. there's blood on the boat. he saw blood and went in. not true. >> reporter: not true. david henneberry is the only one who knows the whole story how the second suspect was discovere
>> now, devin, we know that the medical examiner has cleared tamerlan's body for recovery by the family. do we know who's going to claim it and where he's going to be buried? >> reporter: the father said an uncle of the brothers who lives in the united states could possibly be claimed today. no word on where it might be buried. in an interview with abc news in russia, the mother say she and her husband plan to come to the united states. no date has been set. one interesting...
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and about the bureau's handling of the older brother tamerlan tsarnaev. let's go to chief political analyst gloria borger. talk about the pressure, the pressure the fbi is under to explain what the heck happened. >> announcer: lot of pressure. first of all, members of congress want to do their job and know what the fbi knew, when, they want to make sure information wasn't what we call in washington speak siloed, you know, post 9/11 the big issue was that agencies need to be sharing information. they want to make sure that, for example, the fbi, department of homeland security, intelligence were all sharing information. there is another really important question which just sort of came up today. if the fbi investigated this man and decided he was not really a threat, they contact the russians, they try to get more information, they don't get more information, what can they then do that doesn't violate federal guidelines to continue to pursue him? where do they have to cut it off? where does legal and illegal surveillance begin? there are federal guidelines
and about the bureau's handling of the older brother tamerlan tsarnaev. let's go to chief political analyst gloria borger. talk about the pressure, the pressure the fbi is under to explain what the heck happened. >> announcer: lot of pressure. first of all, members of congress want to do their job and know what the fbi knew, when, they want to make sure information wasn't what we call in washington speak siloed, you know, post 9/11 the big issue was that agencies need to be sharing...
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will release the body of slain suspect tamerlan tsarnaev. the family is having trouble finding a place to bury him. the boston mosque they attended refused to do the service. early this morning in russia, the mother was told she can see her son dzhokhar now in fair condition at a boston hospital. >> she became increasingly devout, tamerlan, the older brother, gravitated toward her. there's an interesting question about what influence she had over tamerlan. >> reporter: back home another classified briefing. >> the main question is the fbi's investigation going back to 2011 and why it was not followed up since then. >> i'm very concerned that there still seems to be serious problems with sharing information. >> reporter: on capitol hill, the secretary of homeland security explained why tamerlan tsarnaev's trip to russia raised no red flags. >> the fbi text alert on him at that point was more than a year old and had expired. >> reporter: today the focus is back in boston where vice president and mrs. biden attend a memorial for sean collier, t
will release the body of slain suspect tamerlan tsarnaev. the family is having trouble finding a place to bury him. the boston mosque they attended refused to do the service. early this morning in russia, the mother was told she can see her son dzhokhar now in fair condition at a boston hospital. >> she became increasingly devout, tamerlan, the older brother, gravitated toward her. there's an interesting question about what influence she had over tamerlan. >> reporter: back home...
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they had the names of tamerlan. they investigated tamerlan and he was part of a big bomb plot. did the fbi fail? i would say they probably -- something sliped through the cracks for them. it wasn't their most shining moment. however, think about bush-cheney and think about obama administration. fbi under bush-cheney, would they have been -- would they have interrogated him? would they have brought him in and spent more time with tamerlan years ago in 2009 when they had his name on the list? when his name popped up on the list would they have gone after them, or was there pc stuff at work where the obama administration says, look, we are not going to go after him right now. he has been cleared. let's not take a look now and let's not follow him. my concern is the treatment of terror under obama is different than the treatment of terror under bush-cheney. obama doesn't want to call it terror. he wants to call it -- i don't know. >> the fort hood one was classified as workplace violence. i don't know if they would claim a do over on that one. greg, you talked about the fbi on satu
they had the names of tamerlan. they investigated tamerlan and he was part of a big bomb plot. did the fbi fail? i would say they probably -- something sliped through the cracks for them. it wasn't their most shining moment. however, think about bush-cheney and think about obama administration. fbi under bush-cheney, would they have been -- would they have interrogated him? would they have brought him in and spent more time with tamerlan years ago in 2009 when they had his name on the list?...
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tamerlan made daily trips to a local mosque that had surveillance. it was then that russia alerted the u.s. about his possible extremist ties. even though the fbi had begun investigating him based on that russian tip he was still allowed to fly back to dagastan because of misspelling opposite his travel documents. theyjanet napolitano was asked why he was not flagged earlier. >> is it true that his flying documents did not match his tsa name why was there a discrepancy. >> by the way the bill will help with this because it requires passports be electronically readable as opposed to be manually input. it really does a good job of getting human error to the extent it exists out of the process. >> michael: that seems like a solid answer. even with secretary napolitano assurance that immigration reform would make the country safer, they're still using the incident as a reason to shelf immigration. and even though he was a saudi national that was interested, he was cleared. this is to further hammer in a papnapolitano. >> before the brothers became the fo
tamerlan made daily trips to a local mosque that had surveillance. it was then that russia alerted the u.s. about his possible extremist ties. even though the fbi had begun investigating him based on that russian tip he was still allowed to fly back to dagastan because of misspelling opposite his travel documents. theyjanet napolitano was asked why he was not flagged earlier. >> is it true that his flying documents did not match his tsa name why was there a discrepancy. >> by the...
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so that when tamerlan, last year tamerlan tsarnaev went to fly to moscow, the u.s. government knew about it because it pinged in the data base. but u.s. officials looked that and said, well okay, he is flying. we check need him and there isn't anything there. i guess there's a couple of questions there. in a situation like this, where you get a request from a foreign government, should there be more -- looking into it, if there is subsequent travel. that cuts both ways. several members of congress have said, they get like 20,000 tips of these tips a year, individual agent, assigned to people get something like a hundred of them a week. and if you keep adding to that list, does that become an unmathageable workload. that's one question. but the second question is, what about some of these radical things that tamerlan tsarnaev was known to be putting on his website? some of these outspoken jihadist advocates overseas, should there be some way it keep more track when people post things to their websites, of noted radicals overseas. that's a tricky area. because its pro
so that when tamerlan, last year tamerlan tsarnaev went to fly to moscow, the u.s. government knew about it because it pinged in the data base. but u.s. officials looked that and said, well okay, he is flying. we check need him and there isn't anything there. i guess there's a couple of questions there. in a situation like this, where you get a request from a foreign government, should there be more -- looking into it, if there is subsequent travel. that cuts both ways. several members of...
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the agency says that tamerlan tsarnaev was flagged two years ago by the russian government according to some of these reports. after a thorough investigation they mailed to find anything that would prove that he had extremist leanings. now there are members on the house committee of homeland security who want to know how that happened, because we don't want that to happen again, clearly this person did pose a threat to the country. so they say in a letter to top intel officials that these incidents, quote, raise the most serious concerns, questions about the ef tpa cassie of the federal counterterrorism efforts. yet tsarnaev remained at liberty in this country conduct the boston attacks and took days to publicly dent time him as a suspect. that is a big question two after having been flagged a couple years ago. i'm joined by republican congressman peter king, member of the committee that wrote that letter. good morning, congressman, good to have you back. >> thank you martha. thank you very much. martha: what do you hope to gain from this? in terms of the last part of that, because h
the agency says that tamerlan tsarnaev was flagged two years ago by the russian government according to some of these reports. after a thorough investigation they mailed to find anything that would prove that he had extremist leanings. now there are members on the house committee of homeland security who want to know how that happened, because we don't want that to happen again, clearly this person did pose a threat to the country. so they say in a letter to top intel officials that these...
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interviews tamerlan and the family. comes up with nothing. goes back to the russians and says, you know, we got nothing here. what else do you have? the russians don't respond. the fbi a second time asks them for something. then in september of 2011 the russians make exactly the same request, but this time they go to the cia. perhaps thinking they'll get a different response. the cia sends that over to the fbi. the fbi says we've already looked into this. there isn't anything. but, again, they say they asked the russians what more do you have? give us more, we'll chase it down. again, they say, the russians don't respond. as a result of these two requests to the fbi and cia, his name did go into a terrorism database. the sort of master terrorism tip database. so that when he did fly to moscow last january, the government knew about that. but it didn't take any action either when he left or when he came back because the case was considered closed. so that's what they did. now, here's the policy question. many members of congress are saying, we
interviews tamerlan and the family. comes up with nothing. goes back to the russians and says, you know, we got nothing here. what else do you have? the russians don't respond. the fbi a second time asks them for something. then in september of 2011 the russians make exactly the same request, but this time they go to the cia. perhaps thinking they'll get a different response. the cia sends that over to the fbi. the fbi says we've already looked into this. there isn't anything. but, again, they...